Woodford Green

Woodford Green is the part of East London that never quite accepted leaving Essex, and Epping Forest, running straight through its western edge, keeps backing up the story. The cricket club was playing beside the High Road long before the suburb turned up to watch, and the houses round the green carry themselves like club members who have heard about your extension plans. Buyers arrive from the inner boroughs wanting a village inside a London borough, then discover the village knows exactly what that combination is worth. Churchill and Attlee both called it home, which settled who it was for: anyone, provided they could pay.